Drainer for garbage-digesters.



No. 717,912. 41PA1\111\ITED JAN. 6', 190s.

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DRAINER EUR GARBAGE DIGBSTERS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1901.

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UNTTED STATES ATENT ERNEST SETH PECK, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TOIl- IE NEWBURGI-I REDUCTION COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATIONOF OHIO.

DRAINER FOR GARBAGE-DIGESTERS.

I SPEGXIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,912, datedJanuary 6, 1 903.

Application led September 26, 1901.` Serial No. 76,613. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ERNEST SETH PECK, a shown, may be cast integral withthe upright citizen of the United States, and a resident of walls. EyesC are secured to said top plate, Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, andState of whereby the entire structure may be lifted 5 Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Imfrom the bottom of the receptacle. Asillusprovementin Drainers for GarbagefDigesters, trated in the drawings,the top plate and upof which the following is a specification, the'right portion of the side plates are left imprinciple of the inventionbeing herein experforate; but the perfor-ations may be eX- plained andthe best mode in which I have tended to the top of the top plate, ifrequired. 6o 1o contemplated applying that principle, so as The endwalls b3 may be also perforated, if reto distinguish it from otherinventions. quired or necessary.

My invention relates to draining devices The perforations in the wallsof the drainer utilized in apparatus for digesting garbage, are made soas to have a greater area upon its object being to provide a structurewhich the inside than upon the outside, as shown l5 will increase theeconoinyof operation ofsuch in Figs. II and III, and are preferably madedevices. of rectangular form, so as to present as large Said inventionconsists of means hereinafa perforated area as is possible. Such deterfully described, and speciiically set forth scribed form of theperforations prevents to in the claims. a large extent the cloggingthereof by the 7o zo The annexed drawings and the following garbagewhich is placed in the receptacle and description set forth in detailcertain mechrests upon the bottom of same around the anism embodying theinvention, such disdrainer. Such garbage entering the side of closedmeans constituting but one of various perforation of least area findsupon progressmechanical forms in which the principle of ingtherethrough, as indicated bythe arrow, z5 the invention may be used.Fig. III, the increasing area which permits In said annexed drawings,Figure I repreof its easy passage, as will be readily undersents avertical axial cross-sectional view of stood. Such form of perforationsmay also the lower end of a garbage-digester embodybe applied, as isshown, to the bottom of the ing my invention. Fig. II represents ahorireceptacle. 8o

3o zontal section taken upon the planeindicated The drainer having aplurality of perfoby the line 2 2, Fig. I. Fig. III represents a ratedWalls located transversely of the bot- VieW of a portion of one of thedrainer-walls, tom, as shown, presents a large drainage such view beingmade uponan enlarged scale.4 area, the increasing area facilitatinggreatly The garbage-receptacle A is provided with the draining process.The drainer, as is 35 the perforated bottom a, as shown in Fig. I,shown, rests freely upon the bottom of the a door A' being providedinthe side Wall of receptacle, so that when it is desired to rethereceptacle for the removal of solid matter move solid matter from thebottom of the from the latter. Located centrally and restlatter throughthe door A the entire strucing upon said bottom is the draining deviceture may be lifted from such bottom and an 9o 4o B. Said device consistsof a plurality of perunobstructed space presented for such reforatedplates forming radially-located wings moval. i b, which open tocommunication with each Other modes of applying the principle of otherand open at the bottom, whereby, it is `my invention may be employedinstead of seen, they are open to communication with the one explained,change being made as re- 45 thereceptaclebottom. Said describeddrainergards the mechanism herein disclosed, prois constructed so as to formone integral strucvided the means stated by any one ofV the ture, itbeing preferable to form the upright following claims or the equivalentof such Walls of separate plates, as shown in Fig. II, stated means beemployed. and to bind the Whole together by means of I thereforeparticularly point out and dis- Ioo 5o bolts b and suitable separators.The top of tinctly claim as my inventionthe drainer is covered by aplate b2, which l. In a drainer for garbagerdigesters, the

combination with a garbage-receptacle having a perforated bottom, of adraining structure supported upon the latter and consisting of aplurality of perforated plates forming radially-locatedintercommunieating Wings, said draining device forming` one integralstructure and being open to communie-ation with the receptacle-bottom.

Signed by me this 20th day of September, 1901.

ERNEST SETHv PECK. Attest:

D. T. DAVIES, GEO. WM. SAYWELL.

